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Contributor: Joanna D'Orazio Mignella. Lesson ID: 14189
Have you ever watched a big sporting event? Athletes are filled with talent! Have you ever wondered how much time they devote to their sport? Pie graphs can help you visualize their daily routine!
Picture the thrill of hitting a home run, making a three-point shot, or scoring the winning goal! Whether you love baseball, basketball, soccer, or any sport, there’s nothing quite like the rush of competition.
Think about all the energy and excitement it brings to your life.
Now, imagine capturing all those thrilling moments and stats in a cool way. With pie graphs, you can visually represent your favorite sports statistics, like the percentage of games won or the points scored by each player.
Check out the video below to see just how much action and excitement can happen in a sporting event!
Dive into how you can create your own pie graphs to showcase your favorite sports data!
Every athlete knows that practice is key to success!
That’s where pie graphs come in handy!
A pie graph is a circular chart that helps you visualize how a total amount is divided into parts. Each slice of the pie represents a fraction or percentage of the whole.
To learn more about pie graphs, check out the video below!
Pie graphs are awesome tools for exploring and interpreting sports data.
For example, look at a pie graph titled “A Basketball Star's Weekly Schedule.” This graph shows a hypothetical weekly schedule for a basketball player.
In this pie graph, the entire circle represents 100% of the player’s time spent on basketball for the week. Each sector, or slice, displays a percentage that indicates how much time is spent on different activities.
The larger the sector, the more time it represents! The smaller sectors show less time spent.
Each sector is labeled with both the activity and the percentage of time allocated to it. This graph tells you what a basketball player does throughout the week and how much time they dedicate to each task.
That’s right—practicing! A basketball star spends 41.7% of their time practicing, making this the largest sector of the pie graph.
It’s the "Other" category! This includes things like team meetings, hanging out with teammates, or attending team events. This slice is the smallest in the pie graph.
Creating a pie graph starts with gathering data. Here’s the data that helped create this pie graph about the basketball star’s week.
| Activity | Time Per Week | Calculations | Percentage | |
| Practicing | 10 hours | |||
| Playing Games | 5 hours | |||
| Resting & Recovery | 4 hours | |||
| Strength Training | 3 hours | |||
| Other | 2 hours | |||
| Totals: | 24 hours |
To turn this data into a pie graph, calculate the percentages following these steps.
| Percentage | = | Total for Each Category | x | 100 | |
| Total for All Categories |
Here is the completed table of data.
| Activity | Time Per Week | Calculations | Percentage | |
| Practicing | 10 hours | (10 ÷ 24) x 100 | 41.7% | |
| Playing Games | 5 hours | (5 ÷ 24) x 100 | 20.8% | |
| Resting & Recovery | 4 hours | (4 ÷ 24) x 100 | 16.7% | |
| Strength Training | 3 hours | (3 ÷ 24) x 100 | 12.5% | |
| Other | 2 hours | (2 ÷ 24) x 100 | 8.3% | |
| Totals: | 24 hours | 100% |
Now that you know how to find percentages, give it a shot!
A Soccer Player's Practice Schedule
This soccer player practices 175 minutes each day. The breakdown is listed below.
Drills: 60 minutes
Running: 30 minutes
Playing: 75 minutes
Find the percent of time spent doing each part of practice, and round each percent to the nearest tenth.
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Great work!
Next, head to the Got It? section to practice using pie graphs to visualize and interpret even more data!
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